Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHENGoing nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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